Díaz G, Castillo VR, Jaramillo GA, Durán A

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ABSTRACT

Introduction. Pericardial agenesia, a non-frequent disease, usually takes an asymptomatic course. However, it ocasionally causes clinical manifestations that can be life threatening to the patient.
Case report. We present a pericardial agenesia case detected during ductal closure surgery and in which the clinical symptoms were probably secondary to the pericardial defect.
Comments. Although, these kind of procedures are usually indicated by partial defects in which a major risk is sudden death due to herniation and trapping, this surgery is based more on the patient's symptoms than on his anatomic defect variant.

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